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@2. Well, Democratic Women won’t have that concern with Mayor Pete. Saw Pete Buttigieg on Rachel Maddow last night. He spoke in complete sentences. Only been married once. Served in the military, didn’t try to get out of it. Came across as a pragmatic progressive.“And so it’s very important to me to make sure we’re winning a values argument too. It’s why I talk about things like freedom, and why freedom can’t just be a property of the conservative movement to the Republicans, but that means constructive freedom.”

Freedom must includes a discussion of responsibility with that freedom. I was listening to the Fox channel on the way in, and they were repeating over and over that freedom for them was not paying taxes and keeping their guns. Nothing else mattered.

“For those HA libbies who can’t figure out why the GOP voter continues to support Trump, ask…”

Apparently a base which fucks farm animals is happy to vote for Republican politicians who fuck children. But please feel free to ignore that and freak out about Bernie’s hugs while sending death threats to Rep. Omar.

While it’s perhaps not too great a concession to allow for Morning Consult editor’s choice of words “inappropriate behavior” in this case, it is at this point a stupid concession to conflate whatever that behavior is with sexuality.

Despite the fever swamp mash-ups, PhotoShops, and video edits, there’s nothing so far about what Biden is alleged to have done that is sexual. He certainly isn’t accused of beating up wives and girlfriends, finger raping beauty pageant contestants, or hiring dozens of hookers. He’s groped nobody. Instead, Biden appears to be a kind of passive aggressive bully who is fairly insensitive to the body boundaries of other people. He “cares too much” and in doing so he belittles and demeans people. He’s George W Bush massaging Angela Merkle’s shoulders.

But that kind of thing is a far away from sexual assault as Jared Kushner is from a peace plan. College football coaches who grab player’s face masks whether yelling at them or congratulating them suffer from the same blind spot. Joe Biden is to Jimbo Fisher as Donald Trump is to Jerry Sandusky. Most women get this.

Demeaning coworkers and subordinates is not criminal sexual assault. But it is still inappropriate. And you are very wrong to imply or assume that a gay man is not capable of demeaning his subordinates in this way.

“The husband of a US Army soldier killed in combat was detained and deported to Mexico last week by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement even though he had been granted permission to stay in the US ….

“The man, who is now back in Phoenix, where he lives, had been granted ‘parole in place,’ clearing him to remain in the US after his wife was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan ….

“Jose Gonzalez Carranza was arrested by ICE agents at his home in Phoenix on April 8 and was taken to Nogales, Mexico, on the border two days later …. Carranza was brought back to Phoenix and released Monday, hours after his deportation was first reported by The Arizona Republic.”

@1 Not really. Considering most banks pay about 1/2 of 1% interest on savings accounts, that’s a reasonable price to pay for a six-month filing extension. especially for blowhards like you whose refund is only $8 to begin with.

For those HA libbies who can’t figure out why the GOP voter continues to support Trump

See Rover/Mercedes owners.

Most people have fairly weak ego boundaries. The more they are obedient to authority, the weaker their ego boundaries. So when somebody pays that much for something, they have absolutely no choice but to believe that they chose wisely. For more see Dunning-Kruger which is also closely correlated with obedience to authority.

@8 Well, at least you know what you are. That gives up a leg up over Trump. But then, you probably have a lot of experience at lifting legs of all shapes and sizes. Just be careful you don’t get kicked in the head. We’d hate to lose you. Trolls are scarce around here. They don’t stick around for some reason.

@17 The Nazis were victorious. (For a while.) That didn’t make them smart. (See final outcome.)

Yet despite their final, total, abject, and humiliating defeat that ultimately got them all hanged, except those who committed suicide to cheat the gallows, Republicans admire their governance model and seek to emulate it.

Wherein Fox News mouthpiece Bret Baier asks an audience how many have health insurance through their jobs and a majority raise their hands, then asks the same audience how many would like to switch to Medicare for All and everybody raises their hand and erupt in loud cheers.

Wherein Fox News mouthpiece Bret Baier asks an audience how many have health insurance through their jobs and a majority raise their hands, then asks the same audience how many would like to switch to Medicare for All and everybody raises their hand and erupt in loud cheers.

Notice he didn’t ask them how many are willing to pay for it.

Remember that $10 federal minimum wage poll, when everyone loved the idea until they were told that it could cost a million jobs, at which point a majority became opposed?

You’re a shill, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. A useless fucking shill with far less personal wealth than you have claimed, which makes you a lying, useless fucking shill.

“A faith-based adoption agency sued the state of Michigan on Monday, challenging a settlement that prevents the agency from refusing to put children in LGBTQ homes for religious reasons.”

Actually, this reporting isn’t accurate; the settlement doesn’t prohibit them from refusing to place foster children in LGBTQ homes; it merely conditions state funding on not discriminating against LGBTQ adoptive parents.

But I was a fool then. I thought Republicans were crazy people. Stupid fanatics. But unfortunately it is not so. You see, Republicans know that they are not strong enough to conquer a unified country. So with Putin’s help they split America into small groups. They use prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.

According to “Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition” by Jost, John T., Jack Glaser, Arie W. Kruglanski, and Frank J. Sulloway…

They found that the top motivation correlated with political conservatism was death anxiety – conservatives perceive the world as generally threatening, system instability – They were afraid the system of privilege would change. intolerance of ambiguity – They were afraid they wouldn’t know who was better than whom. need for order and closure – Another ambiguity fear, They needed things to be clear and finished fear of threat and loss – They were afraid of losing their privilege and stuff.

People who focus on what is being lost. “Make America great again” have a common set of behaviors.

“For instance, Croweand Higgins (1997) used framing manipulations (by stressing losses rather than gains) to evoke a prevention focus, which was found to be associated with: relatively low cognitive complexity, high mental rigidity, a narrowing of decision-making alternatives, and repetitive response styles, as well as with inabilities to complete multifaceted tasks and to rebound from failure.”

Did you catch that last bit? They are terrified if they try anything new, they will be worse off.

Christchurch not enough. They are still thirsty for blood. One way or another Republicans need to create at least the appearance of a violent global crisis to put “the skeer” into their voting base. And they really don’t give a fuck how many people have to die for that.

@22. “Notice he didn’t ask them how many are willing to pay for it.” You will be made to pay for it. All of it The government is going to take everything you have and banish you in a chain link fenced off area under a bridge while brown liberals eat avocado toast and enjoy free liberal health care and free liberal educations from your dime.

That’s the easiest of all discussions about health care. Currently, private insurance companies skim something like 28% of every health care dollar off the top. Those dollars deliver no health care, they just pay for administrative costs and insurance execs’ inflated salaries and bonuses.

By contrast, Medicare’s administrative costs are around 1.5%. This means that switching to Medicare For All would save about 25% of health care costs right up front. That money could be used to reduce premiums, cover the uninsured, and/or expand coverage and improve quality of care.

But health insurance stocks would tank. Medicare For All would spell financial disaster for shareholders of companies like United Healthcare and CVS. Which, perhaps, explains why Doctor Dumbfuck doesn’t like Medicare For All. Probably a bigger factor in his dislike of MFA, though, is simply that he’s a prick.

I seem to get on Doctor Dumbfuck’s nerves sometimes. I hope so. He deserves to be scorned and belittled. Anything I can contribute to that end is a positive contribution to the well-being of civilized society.

His specious bullshit implies that somebody else is paying for it currently. That fundamentally false premise is at the heart of why our system is so fucked up, and why we’ve allowed it to get that way when every other advanced society on earth has already fixed this shit a long time ago.

Not only are we already paying for this, but we are being dry ass fucked in the bargain. We pay twice as much, and we get half as much. The current system has been carefully engineered to benefit insurance companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The benefits to patients are so far down the pecking order they don’t even register.

Next Teh Dumbfuck will do “choice”. Which as every employee knows is also distilled pure bullshit. Most of us have had to change doctors at least every few years as our employer provided plans are “optimized”. Now play around with the farcical notion of “choice” in a marketplace where consumers are forbidden to know prices before agreeing to a purchase. And legally prohibited from challenging a price afterward.

There’s a very good reason a FOX audience leapt to their feet to applaud a socialist when asked about health insurance. And Teh Dumbfuck is absolutely incapable of understanding that reason.

Shep Smith invited Phillipe Karsentry, a French radical anti-Muslim white supremacist, to come on his show and speculate about the origins of the fire at Notre Dame, allowing him to suggest that it was deliberately set “religious desecration” before cutting away.

And Neil Cavuto had a guest from the radical extremist Catholic League on to also speculate that the Notre Dame fire was targeted arson.

“A South Dakota man linked to an admitted Russian covert agent is accused of obtaining at least $2.3 million from 78 people for bogus investments dating to at least 1997, according to documents unsealed Monday.

“Businessman and conservative political operative Paul Erickson, of Sioux Falls, has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.

“An affidavit … alleges that he promised returns of up to 150 percent while spending the money on personal expenses such as motels, flights and college tuition for Maria Butina, Erickson’s former girlfriend.”

As I’ve been saying for years — long before you showed up here — I’m a Democratic party hack and liberal propagandist. At least I’m honest about it. Nobody would know you’re cheating on your wife with her horse if we didn’t tell the world about it.

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